Katrina Gulliver

Not all bunk

In Cultural Dementia, David Andress argues that if the West loses its sense of history it risks losing everything

  • Cultural Dementia: How the West Has Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else

    David Andress

    Head of Zeus, pp. 128

This book reminded me of Kurt Andersen’s Fantasyland — but where Andersen thinks only Americans have lost their minds, David Andress thinks everyone has. I can’t say I disagree, being a subscriber to the Hourly Outrage, also known as Twitter.

Andress refers to Brexit, Donald Trump’s election and Marine Le Pen’s rise in French politics as things that should have been ‘punchlines’, comparing those who voted for them to dementia sufferers.

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